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What (who) is hide - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Hide (disambiguation); Hides; Hide (song)
hide
I. v. a.
1.
Secrete, conceal, cover, bury, keep out of sight, suppress, withhold.
2.
Shelter, cloak, screen, veil, mask, disguise.
II. v. n.
Lie hid, lie concealed, be concealed, conceal one's self, lie in ambush, keep one's self out of sight, be withdrawn from view.
III. n.
Skin (of the larger animals).
hide
I
n.
1) to tan a hide
2) (misc.) to save smb.'s hide ('to save smb.'s life'); to tan smb.'s hide ('to spank smb.')
II
v.
1)(D; intr.) to hide behind (to hide behind a legal technicality)
2) (D; intr., tr.) to hide from
hide
(hides, hiding, hid, hidden)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you hide something or someone, you put them in a place where they cannot easily be seen or found.
He hid the bicycle in the hawthorn hedge...
They could see that I was terrified, and hid me until the coast was clear.
= conceal
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you hide or if you hide yourself, you go somewhere where you cannot easily be seen or found.
At their approach the little boy scurried away and hid...
They hid themselves behind a tree.
VERB: V, V pron-refl
3.
If you hide your face, you press your face against something or cover your face with something, so that people cannot see it.
She hid her face under the collar of his jacket and she started to cry...
VERB: V n
4.
If you hide what you feel or know, you keep it a secret, so that no one knows about it.
Lee tried to hide his excitement...
VERB: V n
5.
If something hides an object, it covers it and prevents it from being seen.
The man's heavy moustache hid his upper lip completely...
VERB: V n
6.
A hide is a place which is built to look like its surroundings. Hides are used by people who want to watch or photograph animals and birds without being seen by them. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use blind
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N-COUNT
7.
A hide is the skin of a large animal such as a cow, horse, or elephant, which can be used for making leather.
...the process of tanning animal hides.
= skin
N-VAR
8.
Examples of use of hide
1. "We did not hide anything, because there‘s nothing to hide," the official said.
2. Typical of them are the songs "Hide deeply" and "Rope–jumping." The nursery rhyme "Hide deeply" was sung by children while playing a hide–and–seek.
3. Prisoners frequently hide prohibited materials inside books.
4. The neighborhood‘s Jews don‘t hide their opinion.
5. Sarkozy does not hide his presidential ambitions.